I first encountered Charles Jennings at one of the Learning Technologies UK conferences. I took an instant liking to the man, and try to attend whenever he presents at any events I attend. He talks such frank good sense (I think the 'frank' bit has to do with being Australian - we southern hemisphere types seem to have that in common).

The first of his contributions that you have listed has been my Big Issue for the past year or so. I'm so sick of the 'us and them' attitude to learning, that I could just scream! I'm also fed to the back teeth with the compulsion to treat employees like recalcitrant children instead of talented adults.

It's high time that we stopped being so precious about learning. Perhaps it's time we got over ourselves.